HardOCP wins legal round against Infinium
Posted by malebolgia on 17 September 2004 - 06:25 · 19 comments & 1877 views
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#1 Posted by SecretAgentMan on 17 Sep 2004 - 06:26
- LOL at Infinium.
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#2 Posted by Solarix on 17 Sep 2004 - 06:36
- HardOCP probably came up with the whole situation for publicity lol
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#3 Posted by Yvo on 17 Sep 2004 - 06:50
- nahh [H] got sued, but its funny how [H] has turned the ties on Infinium.
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#4 Posted by Chode on 17 Sep 2004 - 07:12
- Take that, Infinium labs
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#5 Posted by MikeBlackett on 17 Sep 2004 - 07:16
- Solarix, you obviously know nothing of what has been going on.
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#6 Posted by EVO VIII on 17 Sep 2004 - 07:22
- <nelson> haha! </nelson>
yeah infinium, where IS the phantom?
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#7 Posted by eaglebtc on 17 Sep 2004 - 08:25
- "This account has been suspended."
Guess they ran out of bandwidth.
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#8 Posted by idbuythatforadollar on 17 Sep 2004 - 08:53
- Anyone got info about the lawsuit? That news report doesn't report the news very well...
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#9 Posted by Beast_4thHM on 17 Sep 2004 - 10:03
- I'm in a little of turmoil from one hand I dont like [H] and on the other hand I dont care much for Infinium "labs" so I guess... oh well I hate [H] more - this is bad bad news
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#9.1 Posted by jpcahn on 17 Sep 2004 - 11:51
- How can you hate HarOCP. They are one of the only big tech sites where the person who started it, Kyle Bennet, still seems to be actively involved in it. I never see Anand actually doing much of anything on his site anyomre and the same goes for Tom at Tom's Hardware.
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#10 Posted by Elite_graphix on 17 Sep 2004 - 10:31
- how will H get the case moved to texas??? SO infinium made some deadlings in texas, cant they just say they've done dealings in other states?
anyway .i dont care about either {H} or infinium.. just a bunch of idiots...
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#10.1 Posted by Red Dragon on 17 Sep 2004 - 13:30
- Infinium originally stated they were based in texas, then suddenly moved to Florida when the lawsuits came outswing. All that would have done was switch it to federal, which would take a dimmer view of the whole mess.
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#11 Posted by LVirus on 17 Sep 2004 - 12:15
- www.whereisphantom.com goes to funny page
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#12 Posted by amanichen on 17 Sep 2004 - 13:09
- I'm trying to figure out which of the two is a bigger collection of a-holes. So far, I haven't found a winner
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#13 Posted by Red Dragon on 17 Sep 2004 - 13:28
- I think Infinum picked a fight with someone who was more than willing to slug back, namely Kyle and HardOCP. Bad move, in my opinion, when Infinum's lawsuit and background aren't the type of thing you really want a good and fair judge looking at. I am happy, however, that they did score the first hit. Preventing companies from going into lawsuit mode to keep their Venture Capital funding going (which is what this is all really about) will be a big thing. Infinum sued simply because Kyle and HardOCP did some elementary research, found a lot of holes and other questionable info about their background, and published it. Something any good paper does on a frequent basis.
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#14 Posted by artex on 17 Sep 2004 - 13:29
- I dont see how anyone here is talking bad about [H]. They were just doing their jobs and Infintium sued them, so they flipped it on them and now ppl are calling [H] a**holes
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#15 Posted by 8tImER on 17 Sep 2004 - 14:33
- Go [H]
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[H]ard|OCP has a mirror of the posting @ whereisphantom.com at http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjY1
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#16 Posted by jetblack on 17 Sep 2004 - 14:51
- you need to realize that this affects all news sites including Neowin. If Infinium wins, this is bad news. Period. Kyle just did some investigative reporting and Infinium didnt like what was posted even though it was public information and verifiable (the source). So Infinium sued and Kyle called their bluff. And Red Dragon is right, its about the venture capital.
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#17 Posted by Garry on 17 Sep 2004 - 15:51
- http://www.whereisphantom.com/slashdot.html
Infinium haven't got a leg to stand on. I remember reading all about this when it first happened, ages ago, HardOCP were absolutely right - then when Infinium accused them of libel HardOCP modified their article to leave only *facts - and Infinium still looked like fools.
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